Hi, I didn't find something that sum up the basic features of Saweli, like the phonology and the bases of grammar. Is there a website or documents like this? ...
In a message dated 5/9/2008 11:20:38 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Did you find the dictionary in the files section? I just use Rick Morneau's Latejami grammar...
In a message dated 5/9/2008 17:05:58 PM Central Daylight Time, ... "w" and "y" are as in English "wet", "yet". "Aw" is like "ow" in "cow", "ay" is like "y" in...
The deictics in Katanda were divided into five classifiers with numerical modifiers to distinguish person and proximity/distance. The five categories the...
kas body of water. kabas ocean. kabes sea, a large body of salt water but smaller than an ocean. kabis lake, natural, completely enclosed body of fresh...
las food, fare, victuals, comestibles, edibles, substance that can be eaten. la{chocolate}s chocolate. labyasos beef. labyimos ham [the processed meat]....
wab be related to, be a kin of waz relative of, kin/kinsman, relation. wanpek related, being kinfolk to each other. wadraz blood relative of, a person having...
xak colored, hued, in color, having color. xandas color, hue. xanzop color [verb], cause something to have color. xabek deep [in color], intense. xabok...
zag of (genitive), apostrophe-s, that (relative conjunction), which, who, relative clause linker. zaj [used to modify especially non-nouns with complex...
I have changed the terminative (pausative) and resumptive aspect modifiers from "da"/"zu" and "ko" to "fu" (exit) and "fru" (enter), respectively. (Both "da"...
Hi stevo, I've two and a half questions: How do you say "hi" or "hello" in Latejami/Saweli? Is the POS marker for conjunctions a productive derivational...
In a message dated 6/8/2008 05:49:58 AM Central Daylight Time, ... The closest that I know of is using the vocative suffix with the generic root: tomwe/zol. ...
In a message dated 6/8/2008 05:49:58 AM Central Daylight Time, ... They are productive in Saweli. Whether they are in Latejami, I'm not so sure, but I would...